armitron

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by armitron 3y ago
I wouldn't call Quicklisp slick but I would call it dangerous. HTTPS is irrelevant when it fetches projects, it stores in its own central repo, over HTTP and plain GIT. That model of a middleman NOT the original package author being re
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by armitron 3y ago
Why is something so seemingly simple (sane package management) so hard to accomplish? Quicklisp is pretty bad but at least it's -somewhat- comprehensible and Lispy. Going over ocicl, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. What is O
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by armitron 3y ago
Hyped to hell and back, I'll laugh when the inevitable crash comes.
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Really? I have top of the line healthcare through my employer in the US, which also covers my wife and teenage daughters, which costs me essentially nothing. NHS in the UK is collapsing, but even if it didn't, qualitatively it's o
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by armitron 3y ago
Can you link to some examples of such frames?
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by armitron 3y ago
I once read someone's dissertation on that very theme (maybe we're both referring to the same source). Even though there are some bits that one can make fit, it is laughable to think that a Gnostic fable is THE interpretation of a
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by armitron 3y ago
There is a strong philosophical message in the works of McCarthy, but it's not explicit, you have to synthesize it. If you read his best works being totally oblivious to what he's really saying, then they'll feel like pointle
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by armitron 3y ago
Billionaires can already live in underground luxury bunkers that can withstand a nuclear Armageddon for decades. With accelerating tech, their ability to opt out of global catastrophic risks also accelerates. Not so for the rest of us.
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by armitron 3y ago
Except: - The Emacs team is in full control of both the C parts and the Lisp parts of Emacs. Exposing a C bit to Lisp, or introducing changes to the C core to benefit the Lisp parts, is frequently taking place. - What most people perceive a
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by armitron 3y ago
It can never be the Emacs of web browsers because the browser engine is written in C/C++, not Lisp and therefore minimally extensible through a very restricted API that is not even controlled or influenced in any way by the Nyxt team.
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by armitron 3y ago
I don't see "optionally typed" anywhere in here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp I do see "Typing Discipline: Dynamic, strong"
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by armitron 3y ago
You are mistaken, CL is strongly typed.
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by armitron 3y ago
Sorry not gonna pay 5$ a month for what should essentially be free and open part of the web (instead of VC-funded and monetized).
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by armitron 3y ago
Pichai needs to go, Google is in dire need of someone that can shake things up.
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by armitron 3y ago
Income from treasury bonds is taxed by the federal government.
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by armitron 3y ago
Both Crafting Interpreters and MAL are bad tutorials for non-toy Lisps and use dubious implementation decisions (just not as many as "build your own lisp"). Good references for building a Lisp are "Lisp in small pieces"
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by armitron 3y ago
It doesn't seem like they care. For the last coupe of years, their packing of books for mailing has been so bad (end result that the books one received would be severely damaged) that I've stopped buying books from Amazon altogeth
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by armitron 4y ago
I left SF (and California) years ago having lived there for more than a decade, since I didn't want my two daughters to spend their teenage years in this sort of environment (the writing on the wall was crystal clear). I occassionally
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by armitron 4y ago
Of course, blood and urine. I do them every six months, even though my insurance only covers once a year, I'm happy to pay out of pocket for the second.
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by armitron 4y ago
A lot of cancers have no symptoms at the beginning, but they can be flagged in blood tests performed as part of general health checkups.
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by armitron 4y ago
This is highly unlikely in today's environment, if it was even possible before: The jobs that paid 100k to retrained school teachers and shop technicians are gone and not coming back.
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by armitron 4y ago
"Walking out of the woods in the early hours of the night to get a tow cable for your buddy’s stuck truck is an experience that can’t translate into a map. We have contact with reality on a deeper level than the “maps” we use to naviga
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by armitron 4y ago
If you have control problems with cannabis, I suggest you stay well away from psychedelics. Everything that you mentioned regarding your cannabis experience is something that you learn to integrate and eventually move past, to super-creativ
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by armitron 4y ago
Yet another half-assed custom language that nobody wants to learn? What happened to Guile being THE GNU extension language?
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by armitron 4y ago
Not consciously calculating, there is no effort put into minimaxing. I just look at how the board is set up, focus on the position, the patterns that the pieces dictate, squares that are weak, king position. It sounds like a script but my p
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by armitron 4y ago
Precise thought patterns, acronyms, X seconds per move... This seems like a terrible, robotic way to play chess, at least when it comes to having fun. I've played in excess of 100k games on lichess (mostly 3 minutes, some 5 minute and
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by armitron 4y ago
This is one of its greatest strengths. The Forth community, large parts of which treat Forth as a secret weapon of sorts, has no particular reason to make concessions on the altar of popularity. This attitude helps to attract out-the-box th
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by armitron 4y ago
Lisp won't save you from yourself. I bet a Go program using an equivalent representation (assumption being you naively used READ) would exhibit similar memory consumption. However, that doesn't mean that you don't have other
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by armitron 4y ago
No it's not, unless hyperventilating on pure oxygen (it's ridiculous that this is allowed in competition). I used to be a medical instructor for AIDA (now retired). Anything above 5 minutes is not simply a matter of training. One
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Linux is a bad example, complexity-wise, being based on the behemoth of terrible design that is Unix. Look at Alan Kay's work with VPRI to see what a few brilliant minds can accomplish when looking at things from radically new perspect

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